Venezuela’s CNE submits presidential review meeting minutes to Supreme Court

Caracas (EFE) – The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, has submitted the record of the review of the July 28 presidential election to the Supreme Court (TSJ), which will review the results in which Nicolás Maduro declared himself the winner, an act that has raised questions at home and abroad.

“There is evidence that we have received all the information requested by the National Electoral Council and therefore complied with the court order,” TSJ president Chavista Caryslia Rodríguez said in a statement read out on state television Venezolana de Televisión (TV, Vietnam).

CNE sends minutes to Ministry of Justice

According to VTV, Amoroso submitted the polling station review records, ruling records and announcement records to the TSJ Election Hall.

Rodriguez said the country’s Supreme Court will begin “expert proceedings to record material” within a maximum of 15 days, which could be extended.

Likewise, he said presidential candidates and representatives of political parties would be summoned to hand over all the “election papers” in their hands and be questioned.

TSJ Citations

Among those mentioned are President Nicolas Maduro and Edmundo González Urrutia, the candidate of the main opposition coalition.

In addition, representatives of the anti-Chávez Democratic Unity Roundtable (now the Democratic Unity Platform, PUD), the secretary general of the Venezuelan Movement (MPV), José Luis Cartaya, the governor of the Zulia state (west), Simón Calzadilla), and candidate Enrique Márquez were summoned.

Likewise, the TSJ cites Chavistas Diosdado Cabello, Ipólito Abreu, Ilenia Medina, Ricardo Sánchez and Didarco Bolivar.

On Friday, TSJ asked the CNE to provide audit records and final aggregated results of the July 28 presidential elections as part of an investigation to “prove” the official results of those elections, which saw Maduro win.

“Network attacks”

Likewise, the ruling requires “all elements” to prove “the reported cyberattack against the agency’s computer systems,” which represented “an impediment to the timely transmission of election results.”

Maduro was re-elected with 51.95% of the vote, while González Urrutia received 43.18%, according to the CNE’s 96.87% minutes published on Friday.

However, the majority opposition – the United Democratic Alliance – published on its website “81%” of electoral records, which, according to anti-Chavista figures, show that their candidate won the election by a large margin, a result recognized by countries such as Argentina, the United States or Peru.